Women on the Twenty

In Pamela Lanza’s Experimental Drawing class at UC Berkeley Extension, I started a series of charcoal drawings of American women I thought should be considered for the newly designed 20 dollar bill. Everyone in class was excited this became a big topic in the news while I was working on my series, culminating with the announcement of women for new designs by Jack Lew of the US Treasury. See each of my drawings here.

Here’s a photo of how my drawings looked on the wall for the final critique: I took Pam’s class Small Books UnBound: An inkwash/collage workshop last weekend in SF and decided to see if the drawings would work well as images on an unbound, accordion style book with the drawings superimposed over inkwashed and collaged pages.